- My former colleague at the A&E (Accident & Emergency), AA, was on night duty when a worried looking man came in holding something in his arms. It looked as if he was cuddling a baby. AA thought the baby might be unwell & quickly went to attend to them. AA had a shock of her life when she realised that “the baby” was actually a monkey! The man’s pet was sick but he did not know where to go in the wee hours of the morning & tried his luck at the A&E.
- On another occasion, AA was on duty when a psychiatric patient was seen at the A&E for abnormal behaviour. AA was walking past this patient, who was lying down on one of the examinations beds, when she suddenly felt something land on her blouse. AA had another shock of her life when she realised it was faeces! The psychiatric patient had passed motion on the bed, grabbed his own stool & aimed it directly at my poor friend. From that day onwards, AA always brought extra clothing to work.
- Both stories about AA actually came out in the local Chinese newspaper. Few strangers had come to the A&E to look for her to get the last 4 digits of her IC. They thought both incidents were interesting & out of the ordinary & wanted to buy 4D lottery!
- I was the Surgical Medical Officer (MO) on-call when a 50-plus year old native woman came through the Emergency Department (ED) for symptoms of intestinal obstruction & PR (per rectal) bleeding. The ED MO had examined her first & found a hard mass on PR examination. She called me to see the patient as she thought it might be a rectal tumour. The “tumour” turned out to be 20-odd rambutan seeds clumped together at the rectum & causing obstruction. The patient had taken the rambutans 2 days before. According to her, people in her kampung normally eat rambutans together with the seeds. I had the “honour” of manually removing the seeds from the pateint’s back side.
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